Janet has over 25 years of experience in creating beautiful, livable cities with a focus on inclusive neighborhood placemaking, multi-modal mobility, and ecological infrastructure. In her leadership role as Senior Mobility Strategist, she helps craft SmithGroup’s vision for urban mobility that is focused on people and planet. Janet has a gift for synthesizing the multiple disciplines it takes to create vibrant complete streets,  lush streetscapes and public plazas, and innovative mobility policy and programs. Before joining SmithGroup, Janet was the Deputy Director of the Detroit Planning and Development Department where she helped lead a series of inclusionary neighborhood planning frameworks and re-envision the City’s streets, driving specific place-based mobility projects, including plazas, streetscapes and shared streets. Prior to this Janet was the Complete Streets & Sustainability Director for the Chicago Department of Transportation, where she led the implementation of a wide range of urban design projects, from river walks and trails to streetscapes and green alleys, turning them into great urban places.